Joe's Random Ramblings

The immigration advocacy group Immigration Voice has a very interesting post on their forum:
Somebody send a Freedom of Information Act request to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services agency (CIS), part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Their answer shows their incompetence in every sentence.

In order to extract the information you have requested, a customized computer program will be required. You will be charged for the time it takes to write the program as well as the time involved in running the query to extract the date. You will not be charged for duplication, review and search time. We estimate the cost to be $5000.00. Due to the time and effort involved, you will be asked to sign an advance fee agreement before we proceed with your request. In addition, a deposit of $2500.00 payable by check or money order, must be paid within 30 days of the date of this notification.

Are they really that clueless? It takes a couple minutes max. to run a few database queries.
Later on, another hilarious sentence:

Please define priority date.

They use that term and its definition every day when they process immigrant petitions.
This little sentence makes clear that this agency should be abandoned since they obviously don't even know even the basics of their work.